Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
To be fair I do not envy the dev team they are in a weird spot with the release of male bunnies they either comment to creating female kitties and push bunnies updates regarding hair and stuff even further back or focus on bunnies when they can and focus on kitties during the normal expansion cycle.

Either way not a fun position I would want to be in when it comes to managing resources. Though if it was my call I would focus on female kitties.

Overall though if it was always this complicated I would have just forgone adding new races and just spent that level of resources and time into customization options across the board.
I see the “they should have just not added new races and focused on updating the existing ones” thing a lot but I don’t really think that was ever on the table, even without new races. We already have seen an expansion with no new races to work on and they didn’t touch the character creator at all.

Given their constant comments about being maxed out on memory for character data on top of the only real additions to CC being hair and a few face paints, I’m going to make an educated guess that the reason they haven’t updated the character creator or the old races is that there is no way for them to do so in a meaningful way without first doing a major overhaul of the game. Of course we now know they are looking into that, but it’s still way in the future.

So I do think making races to flesh out the variety (hrothgar) and give people the fan favorite (viera) was the right choice. However, I do think it was a bad design decision to make viera and hroth so different so as to leave them out of gear and hair, again with hair being really the only thing they consistently add to the bare bones character creator to give players variety. On top of giving them only racial hair, they also gave them few options. So there really is no trade off, especially for viera, just to have their ears a bit more centered than miqos. I do not think having the ears be static and more to the side would have made them too similar to miqos, especially since all of the viera in 12 have the same static ears, and were also more widely set.

But it is what it is.

Tldr: Even if we never had viera and hroth they probably wouldn’t have touched CC. See: Stormblood.